The street to Tremendous Bowl LIX in New Orleans narrows with eight groups left alive within the divisional playoffs spherical Saturday and Sunday, January 18-19.
On Saturday, the No. 4 Houston Texans (11-7) are on the No. 1 Kansas Metropolis Chiefs (15-2) on ESPN/ABC at 4:30/3:30c. Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs defeated the Texans 27-19 in Week 16 in Kansas Metropolis and are undefeated at residence through the common season. The Chiefs are in pursuit of an NFL file third consecutive Tremendous Bowl title. The Texans are searching for their first AFC championship recreation berth in franchise historical past.
The No. 6 Washington Commanders (13-5) are on the No. 1 Detroit Lions (15-2) Saturday night time on Fox at 8/7c. The Commanders earned their first postseason victory since 2005 with a 23-20 win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers within the wild-card spherical. Washington seems to advance to their first NFC championship recreation since 1991, the season they went on to win Tremendous Bowl XXVI. Jared Goff and the Lions earned the No. 1 seed within the NFC for the primary time in workforce historical past with a franchise-record 15 wins through the common season.
On Sunday, the No. 4 Los Angeles Rams (11-7) are on the No. 2 Philadelphia Eagles (15-3) at 3/2 on NBC and streaming on Peacock. With a win, the Eagles would advance to the NFC championship for the second time in three seasons, whereas the Rams can attain the convention championship spherical for the third time in eight seasons beneath head coach Sean McVay. Philadelphia defeated Los Angeles 37-20 of their Week 12 regular-season recreation at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California.
The divisional spherical concludes Sunday at 6:30/5:30c on CBS and Paramount+ with the No. 3 Baltimore Ravens (13-5) on the No. 2 Buffalo Payments (14-4) in what could possibly be essentially the most anticipated showdown of the playoffs. In Week 4 of the common season, the Ravens defeated the Payments 35-10 in Baltimore. Josh Allen (pictured above) and the Payments had been dominant in beating the Denver Broncos 31-7 within the AFC wild-card spherical. Lamar Jackson and the Ravens had a powerful 28-14 win over the Pittsburgh Steelers final week.